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via Shorpy.

Hercules has a lion father and a tigress mother. He is 12 feet long and almost 6 feet tall at the tips of his ears. He weighs 900 pounds and eats 25 pounds of meat a day.

Ligers are not found in nature and generally have a variety of health problems, but Hercules is reportedly healthy.

Hercules is going to star in a commercial that was shot on the streets of London. He normally resides at Jungle Island in Miami, Florida.

From Telegraph.Co.Uk:

This horse named Poe could be declared the world’s tallest horse. He is pictured with his owner Shereen Thompson, in Tupperville, Canada. Poe stands 20.2 hands tall at the shoulder and 10 feet tall with his head upright, and weighs 3,000 pounds

from MNN.com:

According to a report by the Worldwatch Institute on nuclear waste, Karachay is the most polluted spot on Earth. It was used by the Soviet Union as a nuclear dumping site, and now the radiation level here is so high that it’s sufficient to give a lethal dose after just an hour of exposure.

Article about their discovery & separation.